Medical specialties and terms

When creating a medical transcription job, you specify the language, the medical specialty, and the audio type of the source file. You input US English (en-US) as the language and PRIMARYCARE as the medical specialty. Entering primary care as the value enables you to generate transcriptions from source audio in the following medical specialties:

You have the choice between dictation and conversation for your audio type. Choose dictation for audio files where the physician is giving a report about a patient visit or procedure. Choose conversation for audio files that involve a conversation between a physician and a patient or a conversation between physicians.

To store the output of your transcription job, select an Amazon S3 bucket that you've already created. For more information on Amazon S3 buckets see Getting Started with Amazon Simple Storage Service.

The following are the minimum number of request parameters to enter in the sample JSON.

{
   "MedicalTranscriptionJobName": "my-first-transcription-job",
   "LanguageCode": "en-US",
   "Media": {
       "MediaFileUri": "s3://path to your audio file"
   },
   "OutputBucketName": “your output bucket name",
   "Specialty": "PRIMARYCARE",
   "Type": "CONVERSATION"
}

Amazon Transcribe Medical enables you to generate alternative transcriptions. For more information, see Generating alternative transcriptions.

You can also enable speaker partitioning or identify channels in your audio. For more information, see Enabling speaker partitioning and Transcribing multi-channel audio.